[See also the late 15th century Dutch
book of hours (below) for a similar example of this type of devotional
literature. For a 19th century revival of the book of hours see the
Livre
de Prieres from 1886.]

“With a title page picture of Pythagoras teaching, this is the first
Italian arithmetic with illustrations accompanying the problems.
Calandri was also the first to show the operation of long division in the
familiar modern form of the staircase-type notation.”

This early printed book is lavishly illustrated with 298 woodcuts, many
with ornamental borders, of plants, animals, distilling apparatus, etc.

“This famous early pharmaceutical-technical handbook by a surgeon from
Strasbourg, along with his companion work on surgery, were important links
in medicine as it developed out of the Middle Ages. The present work
tells how to use distillation to separate the active principles of medicinal
agents found in plants, herbs, and in such things as ants, frogs, oxblood
and flies. As Professor John Stillman said in 1924 these distilled
waters were quite a radical innovation upon the conventional medieval practice.”